The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War
JENIFER PARKS Using previously inaccessible archival documents, this study provides a longitudinal investigation of the middle levels of Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic Sport during the Cold War. Spanning the period from the USSR’s Olympic debut in 1952 through the 1980 Games held in Moscow, this book argues that behind the high-profile performances of Soviet elite athletes, a legion of sports administrators...
Sport in the Cold War: Olympics Retrospective
Sport in the Cold War: Olympics Retrospective As the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio draw to a close, the Wilson Center’s Sport in the Cold War podcast looks back on Olympic history
CFP: I Congress of History and Sport
I Congress of History and Sport April 20 – Closing deadline for proposals May 31 and June 1, 2012 Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisbon, Portugal Organization Grupo de História e Desporto (Group for History and Sport), from the Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in a partnership with Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX of Universidade de Coimbra...
